This book is good for the soul. It will do wonders for your humility by leaving you dizzy and gasping for breath, and thinking: “I don’t understand. I don’t get it. Why am I not as clever as Miles ...

Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism ...

An intellectual colossus of late antiquity, Augustine of Hippo straddled many worlds. Born in north Africa in a town of Romanised Berbers, he moved confidently around the empire's Italian heartland, ...

The teenage theft of pears from an orchard is the springboard for Garry Wills' latest exploration of Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions." In "Saint Augustine's Sin," the award-winning historian ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the year 397, shortly after he became a bishop in Africa, the man who would be known as Augustine of Hippo ...

During his general audience on Jan. 9, Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of teachings on the Fathers of the Church by offering his reflections on St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine eventually ...

I will speak on how Augustine and Monica (Augustine’s mother) and how they were received through the centuries.” “Few people fit this year’s theme, ‘The Beauty of Art, the Holiness of Saints,’ better ...